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Bill: Privatizing healthcare
Details
Submitted by[?]: Fatherland Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 2182
Description[?]:
| I believe this will be a step in the right direction. Why do we regulate the number or private clinics? Studies show that private clinics are more efficient and cheaper than the state owned. We don't have to pay for the whole activity, just the health care of the poor. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Current: Health care is entirely private.
Proposed: Health care is private, but is paid for by the state for people with low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:33:49, February 06, 2006 CET | From | Revolutionary Socialist Alliance | To | Debating the Privatizing healthcare |
| Message | "Studies show that private clinics are more efficient and cheaper than the state owned" Provide figures to show this. People should not be allwoed to make money from the pain and misery of others. |
| Date | 23:18:52, February 06, 2006 CET | From | Libertad y Justicia | To | Debating the Privatizing healthcare |
| Message | Once again, a step in the right direction. |
| Date | 00:26:42, February 07, 2006 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Privatizing healthcare |
| Message | "Studies show that private clinics are more efficient and cheaper than the state owned" Even we if assume your study is not biassed in anyway whatsoever, they might be cheaper to run but will they be cheaper for customers? Seems to me that the private sector could never go below free*. No one, ever, deserves to go without healthcare. The poor would be at serious risk of not receiving coverage under a totally private system, even with subsidies. Healthcare is extremely expensive to run and can only be made fully available to the public with the massive funding available to the government. Besides, its in the BIll of Rights (Right v, http://80.237.164.51/particracy/wiki/index.php/Bill_of_Rights_%28Baltusia%29 ) *Free being paid by the tax-payers. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 110 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 251 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost." - Aristotle |